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Recent Examples of foreshock
Advertisement As with all earthquakes, there is 1 in 20 chance that Tuesday’s temblor was a foreshock to a larger earthquake.
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Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
And a reliable early warning on the basis of foreshocks or release of gases from the ground has many uncertainties and has, so far, not succeeded even with the most modern sensors.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
The dogs may be picking up on foreshocks, the smaller earthquakes that occur before a larger one, or acoustic waves generated by the movement of the tectonic plates, the organization said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 May 2024
Neither foreshocks nor aftershocks can be bigger than the mainshock.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
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Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
And a reliable early warning on the basis of foreshocks or release of gases from the ground has many uncertainties and has, so far, not succeeded even with the most modern sensors.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
The dogs may be picking up on foreshocks, the smaller earthquakes that occur before a larger one, or acoustic waves generated by the movement of the tectonic plates, the organization said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 May 2024
Neither foreshocks nor aftershocks can be bigger than the mainshock.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreshock
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Harris' clearest path to victory in November would be to win the three blue wall battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, barring any shock results elsewhere.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Selzer poll has been viewed as evidence that pollsters calling the race a dead heat have been acting out of a desire to seek safety in numbers following the shock 2016 election result that failed to spot latent support for Trump.Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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Payne was still feeling the aftershocks of life under the 1D microscope as well.August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Countries are still grappling with the aftershocks of the pandemic, including significant debt burdens and dramatic learning loss.Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
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Nothing has compared to that quake since then, and in that time, the population of Los Angeles County has grown from around 9 million to more than 10 million people.Stephanie Elam, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
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And Ghost had two women in the business making men quake: Noma and day-one baddie Monet, played by Mary J. Blige.Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
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In a lecture in 2012, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson considered (opens a new tab) gravitational waves from the sun, where the violent churning of matter inside the star should constantly send out mild tremors in space-time.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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Last week was a particularly active period for the volcano, with over 1,000 thousand minutes of tremors being detected each day, and huge plumes of ash being spewed out of the mountain.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, darkness, storms, and death and was widely regarded as the most powerful force of evil in Egyptian theology.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The prospectus outlines the typical credit risks and also specific hazards including earthquakes in California, typhoons in Japan and European windstorms.Chris Dobstaff, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Foreshock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreshock. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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